Katie Price sends newly single Gareth Gates saucy texts 17 years after taking his virginity while pregnant with Harvey
DESPERATE Katie Price has been texting and calling former flame Gareth Gates following his split from Faye Brooks.
The ex-glamour model, 41, got in contact with the singer, 35, via WhatsApp hours after she had dumped fiance Kris Boyson.
She also called Gareth drunk at 4.30am on Thursday while on holiday with her latest man, Charles Drury.
Last night a source said: “Katie’s always had a crush on Gareth and can’t quite get him out of her system.
When she read in The Sun on Sunday that Gareth had been dumped by Faye, she got back in touch to see if he needed a shoulder to cry on.
“It was actually quite a sweet message.
"But then she appeared to have had one drink too many and started calling him at gone 4am, clearly after some flirty banter.
Gareth was a bit taken aback and doesn’t want to engage.
“From his perspective, he has been there, done that . . . and never again.”
The pair hooked-up in 2002 when Katie was pregnant with her son, Harvey, and Gareth was just 17.
The fling was made public when the Pop Idol runner-up was caught on CCTV sneaking out of her hotel room.
Embarrassed Gareth, who was a virgin at the time, even threatened legal action before accepting it was true a year later.
He later said he denied it because, “I didn’t want my family to find out about my sex life”.
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